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Patented May 24, 1881-.

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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OWEN REILLY, OF WESTERLY, RHODE ISLAND.

CLOTH-WASHING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 242,045, dated May 24, 1881.

- Application filed July 21, 1880. (N0 model.)

.To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, OWEN 0. REILLY, of Westerly, in the county of Washington and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cloth-Washing Machines; and I hereby declare that the following .is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention has reference to an improvement in machinesfor washing cloth some parts of the same are also applicable to dyeing or coloring machines.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the operation of washing or coloring.

In practicing the invention I make use of three chambers or vats, each provided with a number of rolls and a pair of wringer-rolls c0n-' structedto carry the cloth through the liquid of the three chambers successively and pressing out the liquid from the cloth as it leaves each chamber or vat, brushing-rolls of peculiar construction and a device for rinsing the cloth before it leaves the last chamber or vat, being also employed, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

Figure 1 is a sectional view, showing three chambers or vats partially filled with the desired liquid. When used for washing cloth the chamber A is used to saturate and partially wash the cloth. The chamber B is the soap-chamber, and the chamber 0 the rinsingchamber. The path of the cloth is shown by the arrows. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the brushing-rolls.

In the drawings, it represents a batch of cloth entering the chambers or vats, and bis a batch of cloth which has passed through the machine and is ready for drying. The heavy line connecting a and 1) represents the cloth passing through the vats.

c c are the delivery-rolls, which are driven by power and deliverthe cloth to the vats.

d d are top rolls, over which the cloth is passed to the vats or chambers.

e e e are the submerged rolls, over and under which the cloth is passed through the liquid.

f f represent weighted or spring-pressed squeezing-rolls or wringers by which the liquid is extracted from the cloth.

9 g are brushing-rolls, which act as heaters and brushes on the cloth, and greatly facilitate the cleansing of the same. These brushes may be made of bristles, but I prefer to make them as shown in Fig. 2, where h h represent strips of rubber inserted into the central rolls. These strips of india-rubber act as heaters, and at the same time strip the surplus moisture from the cloth and are more effective than bristle brushes. When used for coloring they incorporate the color with the cloth.

In the rinsing=chamber just above the two brushes are placed two perforated pipes, it,

from which a constant stream of water is ejected against the cloth, and this with the beating and brushing action of the brushes, completely rinses the cloth when it is pressed out by the last setof wringer-rolls and delivered ready for drying.

The consecutive operation of the apparatus when used for washing, is as follows, viz: The cloth is delivered by the rollers c c to the saturating-chamber A, where it is made to passthrough the liquid and becomes partly saturated. The outer surface of the cloth becomes quickly saturated, but, owing to the presence of air in the interstices, moisture takes considerable time to penetrate the cloth, but when it is once wet throughout then the liquid will penetrate almost instantly; and to facilitate the operation of washing or dyeing 1 pass the cloth through the chamber A and between the wringer-rolls f f, by which all the air is expelled, the liquid pressed into every fiber of the cloth, and the surplus liquid pressed out of the same. When, now, this prepared cloth enters the soap liquid or color in the chamber B it becomes quickly saturated, the soap-liquid passin g instantly through every particle of the material. In the chambers B and O, in place of the rolls 6 e, the usual (lash-rolls having two, three, or four slats, may be used, so as to wash the cloth more thoroughly than by passing the same over the rolls. As the cloth leaves the soap-liquid the brush-rolls beat the cloth and press out the liquid and impurities. The cloth now passes to the rinsing-chamber, where it is washed in a clearer liquid andis rinsed by the water ejected from the pipes t z, assisted by the brushes g 9. After again passing through the wringer-rolls, it is delivered at I) usually by the well-known plaiting-machines, so as to lie in folds ready for drying.

Heretofore machines for washing cloth have been made with a series of vats, through which the cloth is passed over distending and through squeezing or wringing-rolls, and subjected in such passagetotheaetion of heaters and steamjets.

Haviug thus described my invention, 1 claim 10 as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 15 substantially as shown.

2. In a cloth-washing machine. the combination of a wetting, a soaping, and a rinsing vat, delivery, distending, squeezing, and beatin g or brushing rolls, and perforated pipes i 2', arranged in the rinsing-vat, on opposite sides of the cloth and between the beating and squeez' ing rolls, and adapted to eject rinsing-water against both sides of the outgoing cloth as it is about entering between the last set of wringin g-rolls, substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto afiixed my name.

OWEN O. REILLY.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH A. MILLER, JOSEPH A. MILLER, Jr. 

